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Jeana E. Mann

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The Exiled Prince Trilogy

One night. No names. No faces. It should have been simple.When Rourke crashes a secret masquerade ball, she has no idea the nameless, faceless stranger she hooked up with is about to be her new boss. He has her running in circles like he’s trying to break her, but when her life is in danger, this mafia prince will stop at nothing to keep her safe.Cinderella meets Fifty Shades in this dark, royalty romance from USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. M...

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Jeana E. Mann

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Seaforth Billionaires Series

Sparks fly behind closed office doors when a grumpy billionaire seeks revenge on his high school sweetheart by becoming her new boss.If I want something, I go after it, and I want revenge on Dakota Atwell.I hate the way she’s lived rent-free in my head since the day she left me.I hate the way she smells like fresh flowers and citrus.I hate the way my pulse races every time she walks into my office.I hate the way I dream about touchin...

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Thomas Mann, John E. Woods

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." -The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." -The New RepublicThomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonis...

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Thomas Mann

Translated by

John E. Woods

One of the greatest works of twentieth-century European literature, in the definitive English translation‘Home and a settled life not only lay far behind, but also, and more importantly, they lay fathoms below him, and he was still climbing’It is summer time in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an ‘ordinary young man’, has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans h...

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Thomas Mann

Translated by

John E. Woods

**The definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (**New York Times)‘I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?’Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: ...

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E. Mann

A naked man is found wandering in a remote corner of the Australian wildsand life on Earth will never be the same. Holding a growing belief that he alone can save humanity, he cautiously embarks on his mission. He is the last messenger, a servant of the Creator sent to save humanity from itself.Humankind has squandered and defiled the gifts bestowed upon it by the Creator, nearly destroying the only home it has. Pollution runs rampant, natural resources are exploited, and a catacly...

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Thomas Mann

Translated by

e-artnow

The Complete Works of Thomas Mann presents the expansive achievement of one of twentieth-century literature's defining stylists. Across novels, novellas, essays, speeches, and other writings, Mann examines the tensions between art and bourgeois society, intellect and instinct, disease and vitality, private desire and public responsibility. His famously measured prose—ironic, ceremonious, psychologically acute, and richly allusive—creates an intricate literary world in which individual dest...

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Thomas Mann

Translated by

e-artnow

Published in 1901, Thomas Mann's *Buddenbrooks* traces four generations of a prosperous Lübeck merchant family whose gradual economic, social, and spiritual decline becomes a comprehensive portrait of nineteenth-century bourgeois culture. Combining the expansive architecture of the family chronicle with finely observed realism, psychological analysis, and a subtly ironic narrative voice, the novel examines the tensions between commercial duty, artistic sensibility, erotic desire, and histo...

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Thomas Mann

Translated by

e-artnow

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) follows Hans Castorp, a young Hamburg engineer who visits his cousin at a Swiss sanatorium and gradually becomes absorbed into its diseased, intellectually charged society. What begins as a three-week stay expands into seven years, as tuberculosis, erotic fascination, and philosophical debate suspend ordinary time. Mann's expansive, ironic narrative combines psychological realism with allegory, essayistic digression, and a carefully controlled play b...

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F. E. Round, R. M. Crawford, D. G. Mann

This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera. Diatoms are important as perhaps the commonest group of autotrophic plants on earth and are abundant in all waters and on soils and moist surfaces. The introduction describes the diatom cell in detail, the structure of the wall (often extremely beautiful in design), the cell contents and aspects of life cycle and cell division. The generic atlas section is the first ac...

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Finn Manning, F.N. Manning

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One More Thing

Before One Little Word brought a sarcastic nerd and clueless jock together, they were strangers…Ryan is a pretty interesting guy. He's smart, a decent baker, and other things too. But right now? He's on a busy farm in the middle of the day… and he's not wearing pants. Or any clothes at all. Plus, his nemesis, Luke the handsome jerk, is right over there, so he needs to take care of this situation. Fast. Without dying of embarrassment, if possible.

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Thomas Mann

Translated by

John E. Woods

**The definitive translation of 'Arguably the great German novel' (**New York Times)‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle’In May 1943 a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer and the flower of German culture. He recalls how, consumed by over-reaching...